Toward Quotes
3832 Toward quotes by 2364 unique authors
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Like the advocates of Birth Control, the eugenists, for instance, are seeking to assist the race toward the elimination of the unfit. Both are seeking…
— Margaret Sanger
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Sycophancy toward those who hold power is a fact in every regime, and especially in a democracy, where, unlike tyranny, there is an accepted principle…
— Allan Bloom
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Copies have been dethroned; the economic model built on them is collapsing. In a regime of superabundant free copies, copies are no longer the basis…
— David Shields
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When you really concentrate, you will get a sense of expansion. You will feel that you are larger person than you are physically, as if…
— Michael Chekhov
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Trying is the first step toward failure.
— Homer
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The progression of a painter’s work…will be toward clarity; toward the elimination of all obstacles between the painter and the idea, and between the idea…
— Mark Rothko
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When a dancer comes onstage, he is not just a blank slate that the choreographer has written on. Behind him he has all the decisions…
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
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I just wonder what it would be like to be reincarnated in an animal whose species had been so reduced in numbers than it was…
— Prince Philip
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Sometimes I stand in store windows and pretend to be a mannequin. People are like 'hey, that mannequin looks alot like thom yorke' Then I…
— Thom Yorke
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This regionalization is in keeping with the Tri-Lateral Plan which calls for a gradual convergence of East and West, ultimately leading toward the goal of…
— Zbigniew Brzezinski
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We cannot leap into world government through one quick step.... The precondition for eventual and genuine globalization is progressive regionalization because by that we move…
— Zbigniew Brzezinski
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The attitude of the American public toward the external projection of American power has been much more ambivalent. The public supported America's engagement in World…
— Zbigniew Brzezinski
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There exists in the minds of men a tone of feeling toward women as toward slaves.
— Margaret Fuller
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I do not pretend to understand the moral universe; the arc is a long one. . . . But from what I see I am…
— Theodore Parker
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My temperament is not inclined toward more self-promotion than is absolutely necessary for my professional well-being.
— Robert Silverberg
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In retrospect, each of the steps toward this abyss seemed irrevocable, and yet they had all been so small!
— James Blish
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Writing engenders in us certain attitudes toward language. It encourages us to take words for granted. Writing has enabled us to store vast quantities of…
— N. Scott Momaday
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In the Native American tradition... a man, if he's a mature adult, nurtures life. He does rituals that will help things grow, he helps raise…
— Paula Gunn Allen
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I had got this far, and was thinking of what to say next, and as my habit is, I was pricking the paper idly with…
— Petrarch
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To be free is not to have the power to do anything you like; it is to be able to surpass the given toward an…
— Simone de Beauvoir
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De Tocqueville considered the impulse toward well-being as one of the strongest impulses of a democratic society. He can't be blamed for underestimating the destructive…
— Saul Bellow
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I had toward the poetic art a peculiar relation which was only practical after I had cherished in my mind for a long time a…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The reality is that financial markets are self-destabilizing; occasionally they tend toward disequilibrium, not equilibrium.
— George Soros
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Do not wait for an opportunity to be all that you want to be; when an opportunity to be more than you are now is…
— Wallace D. Wattles
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A negative attitude toward others can never bring me success.
— Napoleon Hill
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